Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

Further to smellgood4u's post above: for those who don't know about it, Wayback Machine is a tool that takes you to archived copies of web pages. This could be useful to us because it allows us to see a page that's down, as it looked before it went down.

Copy the address of the page you're trying to see, and past it into the Wayback Machine (making sure the http:// part isn't repeated). It will show you a calendar of when that page was last archived. Click on the most recent and voila, you have your page.

Apologies to all those that know this already, I am aiming this post at those folks who are unaware that the internet is cached/archived!

Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

Originally Posted by M. Le Pew

Further to smellgood4u's post above: for those who don't know about it, Wayback Machine is a tool that takes you to archived copies of web pages. This could be useful to us because it allows us to see a page that's down, as it looked before it went down.

Copy the address of the page you're trying to see, and past it into the Wayback Machine (making sure the http:// part isn't repeated). It will show you a calendar of when that page was last archived. Click on the most recent and voila, you have your page.

Apologies to all those that know this already, I am aiming this post at those folks who are unaware that the internet is cached/archived!

Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

Best of luck with the future upgrades, Grant. I trailed off from using Basenotes a while back due to the downtime. The Huddler folks have done good things at StyleForum so I'm looking forward to whatever comes next with great anticipation.

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Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

Update - The Directory Pages - like this one are back online. As the Directory Search is still offline, you'll need to use the "Google search" on the top right of each page for now.

Apologies for the piecemeal returning of everything. If it all comes back at once, it's more difficult for me to tell what's working and what isn't. I've spend about 5 hours tonight going through the code, and databases which are used by the Fragrance Profile Pages, so that they are a lot more efficient. I'll get working on the review pages, wardrobes etc tomorrow once I've seen how this holds out.

Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

Thanks for the update Grant. What are your plans for the members that have lost there true post count for some unknown reason during this difficult time, like me? It should be around 1100.
I appreciate all that you do! Thanks so much!

Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

The forum slowed to a crawl tonight. I tried clicking on links and it would take refreshing many times trying to get the page to load. Posting is diffucult, sometimes it posts, other times it doesn't. I hope it gets fixed again. Could it be a DOS type attack to bully the owners to switch hosts? It seems odd that the first fix was the directory because it could mask the DOS attack as just an over taxed server if the intention was for a host to try and get basenotes to leave the old host for a new one. Is that too much of a conspiracy theory?

Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

Grant,

Thank you so much for stopping what you are doing to fix my problem!!!! You are the BEST!! I love Basenotes and will wait it out with you till the bugs are gone. It's too good of a website to let go down the drain!

Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

Originally Posted by Schilling

I'm blaming it on the "panty-dropper" posts.

Oops, I thought the panty-dropper comments were supposed to be a secret only shared in the male fragrance threads. Now we're going to have tens of thousands of angry female Basenoters calling us male chauvinist pigs. Oh well.

On the serious side, yes, thanks Grant for your hard work on the website - we all understand that it is quite an undertaking.

Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

Having let the site run with half the directory up for two days, it seems that the crashy bits are now confined to within the period of 4.30 - 8am GMT. Hopefully this will help diagnose the problem, In the meantime, I'm in London today but i'm going to see if I can swiftly get through the code for one of the other sections that is down before I leave.

Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

I am clueless about these things, but I have always noticed when I am online (and that's very often during the week) that at 6 am. your time the system collapses for about 2-4 minutes. I always thought that maybe it was a backup thing or so.

Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

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Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

jeezes peepl! what kind of "looser attitude" is that? testing...testing.....SSSHHHHMesting!!!! just fix this goddamn website. or just close it completely. Just f***ng close it now!!!!Dont deny your failure or get your s*** together and repair it like it's your mothers life was depending on it!!!!!

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Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

Originally Posted by RavenNightMyst

My comment was a reply to this comment (apparently removed by Grant)

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Re: Recent downtime and the going forward (February 2013)

jeezes peepl! what kind of "looser attitude" is that? testing...testing.....SSSHHHHMesting!!!! just fix this goddamn website. or just close it completely. Just f***ng close it now!!!!Dont deny your failure or get your s*** together and repair it like it's your mothers life was depending on it!!!!!